Monthly Archives: June 2011

The Question of Slavery

Why doesn’t the New Testament condemn slavery? Is the Bible hopelessly behind on humane ethics? How could southern slaveholders say the Scriptures supported the practice? My article on The Question of Slavery has just been posted at BreakPoint.

June 7, 2011 – 8:43 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Deep Social Change, Ethics | Comments (7)

You’ve Never Heard a Talk Like This—But You’ll Want To

What do you think: were the four gospels legendary accounts? Were they any more trustworthy than the apocryphal gospels? Did the four gospel writers know what they were talking about? You may think it’s a matter of faith, maybe even gullibility. I have a few more questions for you then: Are you a numbers/science/quantitative kind …

June 7, 2011 – 1:19 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Evidences | Comments (48)

It’s Great, It’s Awful—Does Any Of It Make Sense?

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Life Lessons in College

I could have died the night before my first day of classes in college classes. I mean that literally. I had gone to college a week or so early as a freshman for marching band camp. It was an extremely physical experience, in fact, I’ve been told it’s about as close to military basic training …

June 6, 2011 – 4:09 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Comments (2)

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What’s wrong with this picture?                        

June 6, 2011 – 4:00 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Just For Fun | Comments (4)

So Many Misconceptions—Where Even to Begin?

Discussion on this very long thread has branched off onto another topic, which isn’t going to be good for the original topic there, so I’m opening up a new thread for this new subject. Greg Magarshak has posted a few comments listing a litany of reasons he thinks Christianity and the Bible cannot be true. …

June 2, 2011 – 8:26 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Evidences | Comments (270)

Right? Or So Very, Very Wrong?

I just spent a lot of energy in this discussion thread proving that Gregory Magarshak’s logic was ill-formed and his style of argument was illegitimate. I still consider that to be technically accurate. He disagrees. Either way I’m sick over the whole thing. Sick of what I did, that is. The upshot of the dispute …

June 1, 2011 – 4:35 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Comments (7)

“Same-Sex Marriage and Human Fulfillment « Public Discourse”

Check out why Carson Holloway says, It is not clear, however, that the quest for same-sex marriage offers any substantive good to those on whose behalf it is so insistently demanded. Put another way, it is hard to see why such an absolute equality of public recognition should be essential to the happiness of homosexuals. …

June 1, 2011 – 3:45 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Life and Choices | Comments (3)